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Date:      Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:03:16 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Diego Montalvo <dmontalvo@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFCE4 Errors on FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912110854410.10609@wonkity.com>
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Diego Montalvo wrote:

> Got XFCE4 installed after a get amount of tweaking.  It turns out
> Portsnap did not update all the appropriate files so installed
> "portupgrade" and did a portupgrade glib.  Glib was not the current
> version needed for "usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4". After the portupgrade
> "make install clean" worked like a champ.

Right, portsnap only updates the ports tree, not applications that have 
already been installed.  The "Upgrading Ports" section in the Handbook 
talks about that in more detail:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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